England Drop down again !

[Coventry Bee]

England have dropped another place in the world rankings - Now only 1 place ahead of the Sweaty Socks

Fifa rankings (previous position in brackets):

1. (1) Spain
2. (3) Italy
3. (2) Germany
4. (4) Netherlands
5. (5) Croatia
6. (6) Brazil
7. (7) Argentina
8. (8) Czech Republic
9. (9) Portugal
10. (13) Turkey
11. (12) France
12. (10) Russia
13. (11) Romania
14. (15) Cameroon
15. (14) England
16 (16) Scotland
16 (17) Bulgaria
18. (18) Greece
19. (20) Israel
20. (19) Ghana

32. (32) Northern Ireland
38. (35) Republic of Ireland
53. (51) Wales

[Beefy]

Does anyone believe that Capello can get us into the top 10 again, from what i've seen so far i'm doubtful. We should beat Andorra on saturday but i think Croatia will beat us next week.

[Rufc89]

he is a great manager, but that has nothing to do with us getting into the top 10 now. all of our players are rubbish. yeh they do well in the prem, but dont forget they have all the foreign players passing them the ball.

the reason england are rubbish is not to do with the manager, just that we dont have enough english players in the top league and we havent invested money into our youth. also the players we do pick are rubbish, why keep picking lampard when he never does anything?

[Beefy]

The most productive youth academy over the last few years has been Man City, what's gonna happen to the kids coming through now. The new owner has promised to buy 18 players at an average of £30 million each, do the kids move on? The time has come to limit the number of foreign players, but i don't think it'll happen.

[Mabudi]

Hi all.
Do you believe that Capello will improve the position of England? ...
Kind Regards

[Beefy]

Maybe by a couple of places Mabudi, but we won't make the top 6.

[Rufc89]

only way to make england good is to have less foreign players in the teams. have at least 5 english players in every team. then they will get better. the problem is, the top 4 have 2 and even 1 player in who is english, how can we improve if that is happening? even man utd are having less english players now and less coming through.

another problem is, teams in the lower leagues have good young players who are 17,18,19 but then a big club comes in and buys them, then just sticks him in the reserves. how can they improve by that?

but as our government said, its against human rights to have that cap rule. tipical england

[Mabudi]

Hi all.
In my modest opinion I believe that Capello will be a brake for the selection of England...

Kind Regards